The Holtonian

Pedro drives his Traveller into Town

The weekend was pretty hectic, as is the case when my brother Pete aka obscene gene, stops by with a few hours notice. We had small group dinner friday night and basically wifey entertained the adults while I played with the 3 and 5 year old kids of a buddy of mine. It worked out good that way, wifey' relates with adults and I relate with kids so it was like hanging out with my peers so to speak. Most of the time I just ran around in circles while they chased me, thats one of my favorite games, I call it "running around in circles to see who passes out the first" I've never won.... meaning I always pass out.

Then Pedro rolled in about late o clock. We had some beers, a stank old Anheiser Busch World Select which is Bud's attempt at an up-ity snob beer. Its not great, not bad, but I'd rather have a Honey Brown any day. HB's the best american beer in my opinion. Sweet, good body, and only about 5.50 a six pack. The only thing else that holds a candel to that is natty ice, which is known to cause uncontrollable diarea or E-D.

Pedro got this new car a year ago from some snake oil salesman while training out in the Nevada desert. He was driving by a farm and saw this International Harvester Traveller circa 1972ish. He couldn't resist, bought and told the farmer he'd be back in a year to pick it up. He picked it up a week or so ago and drove it cross country, stopped in St. Louey to pick up some stuff for us and drove it here. He asked that in return for bringing stuff if I'd fill er up. I figured it'd be 40 bucks maybe, with high gas prices and it being an SUV. Oh no, it turned out to be 65 dollar tab and over 30 gallons of gas. The thing has more gas than fat man after a meal at Bubba's Chili Shack. It was worth it though, for the gas grill he brought us. It's a sweet pit and we've used it twice already, nothin better than animal flesh cooked good and hearty on a bbq pit. Makes a man feel like a man. Here's a pic of the car....

Pedro and I toured around town saturday doing a bunch of erands i Had to do. It was great driving the behemoth vehicle, rarely do you have an opportunity to drive a vehicle that actually looks down upon a suburban. The best was driving by kids in their brand new 4 runners, pathfinders, and other lame-o flame-o SUVS and watching their faces go from cocky to embarrassed. It was awesome, they just knew if the Traveller were to go head on with their car that the Traveller would be unphased and their car would be a pile of crappy plastic. The traveller was a definate ego booster, and for this low self esteemed boy, it was a day I felt better than anyone else. Sound pathetic? It was, but fun too!

Then Sunday we went down to Atlanta to see the inlaws and inlaw grandparents. It was great and good food too. It was the mudder in law's b-day and i used the opportunity to bum some tools off me grandpappy in law. He has more tools than Home Depot and has the good old fashion kind.